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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by greplogic »

pigcat wrote: post #113

I run an e-commerce store as a side-hustle: https://drinkyourdailywater.com/ We sell glass water jugs targeted at desk workers, to help remind you to drink enough water. I created it because I wasn't drinking enough water. Running paid ads has been very hit or miss, and I don't have a knack for the marketing. But word-of-mouth has been good for us and we get the odd corporate sale here or there.

this is pretty cool - if i could ask, where do you find a manufacturer to help you produce this? also, is fulfillment ran inhouse?

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Post by TheHippo »

niftylettuce wrote: post #9

Forward Email is doing several thousand per month now just one year in. Site: https://forwardemail.net Open Startup: https://forwardemail.net/open-startup

Don't determine the users language by the country the request is coming from. My browser wants English, despite me being in Germany, so don't show me the German page. The good thing though was that besides the language selector nothing else was translated.

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Post by sliceform »

I started a 3D printing company generating on average about 2k/month printing small plastic clips and connectors for collectors as well as a few other adapters and jigs sold on eBay.

I'm now working on building out a 3D printing course teaching others how to do the same.

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Post by TecoAndJix »

seangp wrote: post #235

Friend and I have recently launched a side project where we give away high quality, royalty-free music. Early days but we’re making ~$800 per month from YouTube’s content ID payments alone. https://bluefoxmusic.com

Colossus and Good Days are catchy! Fantastic work

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Post by davchana »

crobertsbmw wrote: post #25

My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates. I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon em…

I saw a TikTok of your book another day, & saved it. Would love this for my future kid.

How do you manage sakes tax collection & other stuff like shipping & such? Assuming you are in US. Do you use Shopify or Etsy or dome online one? Did u apply for a seller's permit to deposit sales tax? If manually, how do you calculate sales tax, because its based on buyer's address right?

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Post by kbuck »

londons_explore wrote: post #6

I do pretty well out of serverthiefbait.com, despite having built it in a weekend and not touched it for 1+ year...

Just a heads-up, a small typo on your FAQ page:

> ServerBaitThief.com retains ownership of the wallet contents at all times.

(wrong domain name)

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Post by soheilpro »

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #231
soheilpro wrote: post #100

I have three: https://pikaso.me which lets people post their tweets on Instagram https://postsheet.com for sending emails / SMS from data in Google Sheets or Airtable https://volt.fm for viewing Spotify stats and discovering new music

volt.fm is really cool thanks for that!

Glad you like it :)

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Post by throwPentacle »

I've been running an Ethereum validator node for about 7 months. At current ETH prices I've been theoretically making about $600/month. The ETH earned from staked ETH is not accessible until after 'the merge' which is expected to be sometime in 2022.
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